HUNGRY TO WIN?

Dear Lucas ,

Watching Claressa Shields in the ring at the Olympics, I could tell she was hungry to win. Her gold medals show that.

But not long ago, Claressa faced a different kind of hunger. Growing up as one of three children in a poor neighborhood in Flint, Michigan, she routinely went without meals so her younger brother and sister could eat.

Each year for the last 40 years, the vast majority of children who rely on free lunches during the school year go without summer meals because the program lacks the flexibility it needs to get food into the hands of the kids who need it.

That’s 18 million hungry American kids.

Summer hunger is a solvable problem. Congress is in the race to improve the national summer meals program, which is now nearly a year overdue. Improvements that will allow the summer meals program to reach more hungry children have bipartisan support, but progress has stalled.

Tell your members of Congress to finish what they’ve started so hungry kids can eat.

Crossing this critical finish line on a strong summer meals bill must be the first order of duty for Congress when they return from summer recess.

How many Claressa Shields are out there today who will never reach their remarkable potential because we as a nation cannot feed our kids?

Contact your members of Congress and tell them to finish strong and fix the summer hunger crisis by passing a strong Child Nutrition bill.

Sincerely,